{"id":272,"date":"2016-08-09T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2016-08-07T14:02:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T21:02:44","slug":"portlands-holocaust-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/08\/09\/portlands-holocaust-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland&#8217;s Holocaust Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful, peaceful space, set in a forested park. I\u00a0happened upon it.<a href=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1435.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-276\" src=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1435-900x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Holocaust memorial wall\" width=\"840\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1435-900x1200.jpg 900w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1435-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1435-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1435-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The wall has quotes from Holocaust survivors who moved to Portland.<a href=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1426.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-277\" src=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1426-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"Life was uncertain\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1426-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1426-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1426-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All of us children were crying for our parents. A guard came over to us and yelled, &#8220;Stop all of your whining! See that chimney, see that smoke, smell that stench in the air? That is your parents!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1437.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-278 size-large\" title=\"Left by the wayside\" src=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1437-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"Left by the wayside\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1437-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1437-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1437-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One night the Arrow Cross lined us all up at the edge of the Danube River. The line stretched in both directions as far as I could see. The cold stillness of the night air was broken by the sound of gunfire as the Nazis walked down the line shooting every standing person one by one. They stopped shooting just as they got to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1433.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-279\" src=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1433-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1433\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1433-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1433-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1433-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful, peaceful space, set in a forested park. I\u00a0happened upon it. &nbsp; The wall has quotes from Holocaust survivors who moved to Portland. &nbsp; All of us children were crying for our parents. A guard came over to us and yelled, &#8220;Stop all of your whining! See that chimney, see that smoke, smell that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/08\/09\/portlands-holocaust-memorial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Portland&#8217;s Holocaust Memorial&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}